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Adams attended community college near Baltimore, Maryland and became a radio disc jockey. Uninterested in sex with men as a teenager, she did not lose her virginity until age twenty.[2] She moved to the West Coast in 1981, where she attended broadcasting school. Adams worked briefly at several small radio stations, including a midnight to six AM shift at the University of California at San Diego station.[3]

Unable to make ends meet in radio, Adams began 'straight' acting in 1983, and continued her schooling. Later she did various topless roles in B films like Lost Empire. Unable to pay her final semester tuition at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, she first posed nude in many adult magazines and then entered the adult industry. Adams first performed sex in 1985's Make My Night for which she appears on the box cover.[3]

Adams was active in the pornographic film industry for sixteen years, from 1983 until 1999. She performed in over 200 films, with many of the most famous pornographic performers of the time.

Porn director John Stagliano (a.k.a Buttman) has stated that a scene showing Adams' buttocks inspired him to make the Buttman series of films. The clip shows Adams on her hands and knees with her butt stuck high in the air. "The shot only lasted a couple of seconds," says Stagliano, "but I knew then what I wanted to do." [3] Adams won an AVN Award in 1990 in Stagliano's Adventures Of Buttman for "Best Tease Performance".[4][5] Other prominent adult film stars, such as Tori Welles and Porsche Lynn, had their first taste of lesbian sex on camera with Adams as their lover.

Adams was known for her acting ability and intelligence as well as for her voluptuous, carnal charms. As Adam Film World wrote about her in 1987, Adams can "handle characters that few porn actresses dare attempt: she is convincing as a woman of education, culture, breeding; she can play a successful author (Lust on the Orient Express); a rich socialite (Sins of the Wealthy 2); an Indian princess (Soft, Warm Rain); mother to a college-age lad (2002: A Sex Odyssey); a slick hooker (Jacqueline)." [3]

Adams left the pornography business in the late 1980s to try to break into the world of mainstream R-rated B-movies, but her attempted leap into a 'straight' career didn't pan out. Adams soon returned to the hard core arena where she was a star.[6]

In 1991, Adams was written about in an article in the Los Angeles Times. "Although she is free-thinking, Adams is anything but the free-spirited sexual athlete her fans like to imagine. She worries about crime and overpopulation and drinks two vodkas medicinally each night to help her sleep. She sponsors two poverty-stricken children in foreign countries. Her rented bungalow in West Los Angeles might be the home of any anxious, PBS-watching, middle-level executive except for the catalog of her sex tapes hidden behind a wood plank on an upper shelf in a back room."[7][3]

Adams left the adult industry as a regular performer in 1992,[6] but continued to do the occasional film as late as 1999. Adams was involved in a long-term lesbian relationship with porn actress Amber Lynn, with whom she performed in strip shows in Canada. They are no longer a couple.[9]

Since leaving the adult industry, Adams has continued her education and training in Los Angeles. She completed UCLA's Film & TV Program, and has also trained in improvisational comedy at The Groundlings School of Improvisation and The Improv.